The Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate held a meeting in the capital with Dubai Police Traffic Directorate General discussing the facilitation of procedures for individuals who approach the police for the release of their detained vehicle. The facilitation would include implementing a scheme for the seizure and release of detained vehicles.
Brigadier General Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate, met a delegation from the Dubai Police Traffic Directorate General, headed by Lt. Colonel Jamal Mohammed Abdullah Al Banai, Assistant General Director of Deira Traffic Police Station at his office. The meeting was attended by many heads of divisions and officers from Dubai and Abu Dhabi Traffic Departments.
Al Harithi stressed the importance of sharing knowledge, benefitting from acquired experiences by UAE Traffic Departments for seizing and releasing detained vehicles, and implementing a scheme between those departments to simplify procedures.
The meeting, presided by Lt. Colonel Ahmed Al Zayoudi, Head of Major Traffic Accidents Division in Abu Dhabi Traffic Department, also tackled the administrative laws and procedures under which vehicles are detained to reduce dangerous violations and the irresponsible behavior of some reckless drivers.
The delegation attended a presentation by Lt. Colonel Mohammed Rashid Al Shamsi, Head of Traffic Control at the Directorate, about the procedures adopted in carrying out a vehicle detainment.
The visiting Dubai delegation included: Lt. Colonel Jamal Mohammed Abdullah Al Banai, Assistant General Director of Traffic Dubai; Lt. Colonel Ahmed Khalifa Al Ayali, Director of Fines Follow-up Department; Lt. Colonel Hammoud Saeed Al Ameri, Director of Deira Traffic Police Station; Major Mohammed Abdullah Khalfan, Director of Patrols Department in Bur Dubai; and Major Nawaf Mohammed Al Shamesi, Head of Traffic Surveillance in Bur Dubai. Concluding the visit, the Dubai Delegation toured the Fines Division, and was introduced to the laws in place for the traffic surveillance motorcycles and civil and police traffic patrol vehicles.